In 1829, a man walked a pet bear cub around Rochester on a leash. On November 6, in front of eight thousand people, he shoved it off a hundred-foot waterfall — then jumped after it. His name was Sam Patch, America's first celebrity daredevil.

https://oddlet.com/p/s02

#HistSci #history #SciComm

In 1626 she published a 900 page genealogy of Danish nobility. She remained famous for garden till her death in her 80s. #womenInSTEm #histsci #sciart

IAU WG Preservation & Digitization of Photographic Plates

Free, Virtual Workshop on Spectral Plates
October 20-23, 2026
archiving, digitizing, & utilizing photographic spectra

nadc.china-vo.org/events/PDPP2...

#astronomy #histsci #planetaryscience ☀️ #spectroscopy #labastro 🧪 🏛️ #photography

Everyone cites the founding papers of AI. Fewer people have read them.

A thread of the originals, 1943 to 2017: each one with the paper itself and our dossier on what it changed. #AIHistory #HistSci

#womenInSTEM #histsci 🎢🧮🧪

"We often think of #alchemy as something distinct from science, but as historians of science, we’re really interested in the continuities..."

Today's #histSTM (& #histsci, #histchem, etc.) lunchtime read: @whyy.org's preview of @sciencehistory.org new art & alchemy exhibit ("Fire & Gold").

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Come join the Consortium for the history of science's frozen environment group's first meeting as we discuss Tom Simpson's paper "Knowing Earth through ice: frozen matter and planetary sciences before ESS" #envhist #histsci #glaciers
www.chstm.org/group/scienc...

Her house held thousands of maggots and beetles in bottles. She carried live specimens in her pockets and produced them, unannounced, at meetings with farmers. Eleanor Ormerod, the Royal Agricultural Society's consulting entomologist.

https://oddlet.com/p/fhp

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Happy birthday to Danish #physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). 🧪🐡🎢 #histsci One of his most famous contributions to quantum mechanics was the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom. Bohr is shown next to the Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom (all the concentric circles are actually at the appropriate spacing,

"Nobody and no body really fits into the Internet of Bodies, but the endless correction of biosensor errors works to endlessly extend the reach of the sensor society. " #Histsci #HistSTM

Review: Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science, by Matthew Rowlinson #HistSci #HistSTM

#NobelPrize2026 in #chemistry

Kagan showed that, in certain reactions, a small predominance of a molecule’s "right-handed" or "left-handed" form (in the catalyst) can produce a much higher excess than expected.

🧪 #HistSci #Science

Infinite series in medieval India the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics #histsci
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Hey! You can learn more about the IceCube and its role in Antarctic history in our book! #histsci #Antarctica

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#histbio #histsci #Darwin #queer #queerhistory

New semester, new lecture series! This time with the fantastic @federicabocchi.bsky.social, @rossbrooks.co.uk, @drandyflack.bsky.social and others. Join us online on Mondays at 4pm (CET). Just click here to register: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

Every morning he walked miles to swim in the sea, his footman trailing in the empty carriage. He refused fires, doctors, and church. His beard could be seen from behind. Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby — the Baron in the Bath.

https://oddlet.com/p/b5d

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